While research espousing the benefits of mLearning are many, often neglected are the challenges to mobile learning implementation that include cell phone policies, parental involvement, and administrative involvement. This general session’s presentation focuses on the important connection between cell phone policies and mobile learning. Guided by the diffusion of innovation framework (Rogers, 2003), we examine the origin of such policies, and how they have systematically limited the expansion of mobile learning in pre-secondary schools.
Wilmon Brown, III, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USAMy name is Wilmon Brown III and I am a 3rd year doctoral student at Oklahoma State University in the Educational Technology program. My focus is in Organizational Learning and Evaluation. My dissertation topic is the digital divide and the effect it has on implementing mobile learning in schools.
I currently serve as the Director of Research and Analytics at Growing Together, a non-profit education and neighborhood revitalization organization in Tulsa, OK.
It is my hope that the research I will conduct during my academic career will ultimately lead to increasing the pipeline for individuals who have been historically underrepresented in colleges and universities. Once my research has been established, I will found a charter school in Tulsa, OK that adopts a curriculum based on early use of technology in school. I will be able to write textbooks, non-academic books, and eventually open charter schools in many different locations. I believe that technology acclimation at an early age will allow students the opportunity of growing up in global citizenship with the tools to access the knowledge of their fellow global citizens.
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